The role and character of Private International Law has changed tremendously over the past decades. With the steady increase of global and regional inter-connectedness the practical significance of the discipline has grown. Equally, so has the number of legislative activities on the national, international and, most importantly, the European level.
With a world-class editor team, 500 content items and authorship from almost 200 of the world’s foremost scholars, the Encyclopedia of Private International Law is the definitive reference work in the field. 57 different countries are represented by authors who shed light on the current state of Private International Law around the globe, providing unique insights into the discipline and how it is affected by globalization and increased regional integration.
The Encyclopedia consists of three inter-linked pillars, enhanced by sophisticated search and cross-linking functionality. The first pillar consists of A-Z coverage of the scope and substance of Private International Law in the form of 247 entries. The second pillar comprises detailed overviews of the Private International Law regimes of 80 countries. The third pillar presents valuable, and often unique, English language translations of the national codifications and Private International Law provisions of those countries. This invaluable combination represents a powerful research tool and an indispensable reference resource.

Gary F Bell, Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore (Singapore), lawbellg@nus.edu.sg

Indonesia (together with Yu Un Oppusunggu)

William Binchy, Professor at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), william.binchy@tcd.ie

Ireland

Jan Asmus Bischoff, Inhouse Counsel at M. M. Warburg & Co, Hamburg (Germany) and former Junior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, janasmusbischoff@googlemail.com

Arbitration, investment

Tushar Kumar Biswas, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cologne (Germany), tushar.nujs@gmail.com

India

Joost Blom, Professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada), blom@allard.ubc.ca

Canada

Giorgia M Boi, Professor at the University of Genoa (Italy), g.m.boi@unige.it

Sea waybills and other transport documents

Andrea Bonomi, Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) and Director of the Center of Comparative, European and International Law (CDCEI), Lausanne, (Switzerland), andrea.bonomi@unil.ch

Incidental (preliminary) question

Succession

Italy (together with Tito Ballarino)

Vilim Bouček, Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb (Croatia), vesna.komotar@pravo.hr

Croatia

Adrian Briggs, Professor at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom), adrian.briggs@law.ox.ac.uk

p. ixChoice of forum and submission to jurisdiction

Floating choice of law

Recognition and enforcement of judgments (common law)

Monica Brignardello, Professor at the University of Genoa (Italy), monica.brignardello@tin.it

Carriage of goods by road, rail and inland waterways

Paul Cachia, Visiting Lecturer at the University of Malta, Msida (Malta), paulcachia@gmail.com

Malta

Gralf-Peter Calliess, Professor at the University of Bremen (Germany), calliess@uni-bremen.de

Lex mercatoria

Online dispute resolution (together with Simon Johannes Heetkamp)

Laura Carballo Piñeiro, Tenured Associate Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), laura.carballo@usc.es

Employment, maritime

IMO

Sergio M Carbone, Professor Emeritus at the University of Genoa (Italy), carbone@carbonedangelo.it

Multimodal carriage contracts

Laura Carpaneto, Research Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Genoa (Italy), Laura.carpaneto@unige.it

Salvage

Pierangelo Celle, Associate Professor at the University of Genoa (Italy), Pierangelo.celle@unige.it

Marine insurance

Rong-Chwan Chen, Professor at National Taipei University, New Taipei City (Taiwan), ronchen@mail.ntpu.edu.tw

Taiwan

Weizuo Chen, Professor at Tsinghua University School of Law and Director of the Research Center for Private International Law, Beijing (China), chenweizuo@hotmail.com

Lawrence Collins (Lord Collins of Mapesbury), Former Lord of Appeal and Justice of the UK Supreme Court; Professor, University College London; and arbitrator-member, Essex Court Chambers, London, lcollins@essexcourt.net

Dicey, Albert Venn

Giuditta Cordero-Moss, Professor at the University of Oslo (Norway), g.c.moss@jus.uio.no

Burkhard Hess, Executive Director of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law (Luxembourg) and Honorary Professor at the Universities of Heidelberg (Germany) and Luxembourg (Luxembourg), burkhard.hess@mpi.lu

Brussels I (Convention and Regulation) (together with Vincent Richard)

Civil and commercial matters (together with Christian Oro Martinez)

Paola Ivaldi, Professor at the University of Genoa (Italy), paola.ivaldi@giuri.unige.it

Carriage of goods by sea

Christa Jessel-Holst, Former Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg (Germany), jessel@mpipriv.de

West Balkan Convention

Albania (together with Aida Gugu Bushati)

Thomas Kadner Graziano, Professor at the University of Geneva (Switzerland), thomas.kadner@unige.ch

Products liability

Torts

Traffic accidents

Farkhad Karagussov, Chief Researcher at the Institute of Private Law and Professor at the Law Faculty, Caspian University, Almaty (Kazakhstan), karagussovyk.f@mail.ru

Kazakhstan

Eva-Maria Kieninger, Professor at the University of Würzburg (Germany), kieninger@jura.uni-wuerzburg.de

Expropriation

Immovable property

Security interests in mobile equipment (uniform law)

Patrick Kinsch, Professor at the University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg), kinsch@vo.lu

Human rights and private international law

Luxembourg

Caroline Kleiner, Professor at the University of Strasbourg (France), carolinekleiner@gmail.com

Money and currency

Switzerland

Jens Kleinschmidt, Professor at the University of Trier (Germany), kleinschmidt@uni-trier.de

Herbert Kronke, Professor Emeritus at the University of Heidelberg (Germany), Judge at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague (The Netherlands) and former Secretary-General, UNIDROIT, Rome (Italy), kronke@ipr.uni-heidelberg.de

Liability, capital market

UNIDROIT

Hilmar Krüger, Professor Emeritus at the University of Cologne (Germany), hilmar.krueger@uni-koeln.de

José A Moreno Rodríguez, Partner at Altra Legal Services, Asunción (Paraguay) and Professor of Law at several programs, among them the Master of Laws in International Law at Heidelberg Center for Latin America, Center of Excellence in Research and Teaching of Heidelberg University in Santiago de Chile (Chile), jmoreno@altra.com.py

Cristian Oro Martinez, Lawyer at the Research and Documentation Directorate at the Court of Justice of the European Union (Luxembourg) and former Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law (Luxembourg), cristian.oro@icloud.com

Civil and commercial matters (together with Burkhard Hess)

Mario JA Oyarzábal, Adjunct Professor at the University of La Plata Law School (Argentina) and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Argentine Foreign Service, moyarzabal@post.harvard.edu

Goldschmidt, Werner

Guillermo Palao, Professor at the University of Valencia (Spain). guillermo.palao@uv.es

Marta Pertegás, First Secretary at the Hague Conference on Private International Law, The Hague (The Netherlands) and Professor at the University of Antwerp (Belgium), marta.pertegas@ua.ac.be, mp@hcch.nl

Hague Conference on Private International Law

Treaties in private international law

Eduardo Picand Albónico, Professor at the University of Chile, Santiago de Chile (Chile), epicand@picandyrious.cl

Mathias W Reimann, Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor/MA (USA), purzel@umich.edu

Better law approach

Interest and policy analysis in private international law

Moritz Renner, Junior Professor at the University of Bremen (Germany), moritz.renner@uni-bremen.de

Companies, transnational groups of

Marta Requejo Isidro, Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law (Luxembourg) and Tenured Associate Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), marta.requejo@usc.es, marta.requejo@mpi.lu

Assignability/Assignment of claims

Cessio legis

Lex fori

Vincent Richard, Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law (Luxembourg), vincent.richard@mpi.lu

Brussels I (Convention and Regulation) (together with Burkhard Hess)

Hannes Rösler, Professor at the University of Siegen (Germany), roesler@recht.uni-siegen.de

Giesela Rühl, Professor at the of Jena (Germany), giesela.ruehl@uni-jena.de

Economic analysis and private international law

Private international law, foundations

Regulatory competition

Jürgen Samtleben, Former Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg (Germany), samtleben@mpipriv.de

Bustamante, Antonio Sánchez de

Jens M Scherpe, Reader in Comparative Law at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), jms233@cam.ac.uk

Matrimonial property (together with Walter Pintens)

Same-sex marriages (together with Walter Pintens)

Transsexual and transgender persons

Lorenzo Schiano di Pepe, Professor at the University of Genoa (Italy), Lorenzo.SchianoDiPepe@unige.it

Maritime torts

Johannes Schilling, Associate at Dabelstein & Passehl, Hamburg (Germany) and former Junior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg (Germany), jo.hannes.schilling@gmx.de

Freight forwarding contracts

Christoph U Schmid, Professor at the University of Bremen (Germany), schmid@zerp.uni-bremen.de

Kurt Siehr, Professor Emeritus at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) and former Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg (Germany), siehr@mpipriv.de

Ehrenzweig, Albert A

Evasion of laws (fraus legis)

GEDIP

Kahn, Franz

Private international law, history of

Linda Silberman, Martin Lipton Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, New York/NY (USA), linda.silberman@nyu.edu

(American) Conflict of laws revolution

Currie, Brainerd

Lis alibi pendens

USA

Michael E Solimine, Professor at the University of Cincinnati (USA), Solimime@ucmail.uc.edu

Game theory and private international law

Michael Sonnentag, Professor at the University of Würzburg (Germany), Sonnentag@jura.uni-wuerzburg.de